"Mother wants to talk with us."David nodded. "Come here, first." What?"David pulled her into his arms and gazed at her with all the love he felt insid... him. "I broke a promise this afternoon. I connected with you and didn't touch you. I apologize." When?" While you were talking with Mother in the car."Immediately furious, she tried to twist out of his arms, but he held her tight."I'm in love with you, too, Darla."His words dashed her hot anger like a tub of iced water, but immediately took her. "no but I do like this boy in America named Seth "she answered " oh yeah I know him, so do you like any one else "I asked. 'well there is this one guy I kinda like " she said and he looked at me and I knew what she was talking about,but just to make sure I asked "is it me" "yes I t is you "she said "well do you want to be my girlfriend "i asked "umm give me time to think yes I do "she said with a sort of excitement I looked at and winked and told her that "we have to keep it a secret and we. "We were up in front of the stage when he told me, "Look up at me, Bellana."I looked up at him. He picked me up slightly, bent down and kissed me on the mouth! Hot damn! I felt the spotlights on us as we did turns for at least ten seconds.He kissed me with love, warmth and above all, respect. He said, "You are a wonderful lady, Bellana. You truly are Starlight and Nova, and you deserve every good thing that can ever happen to you. Live long, love hard and be happy."We broke the kiss and he spun. After what seemed like hours, Eddie crawled into bed beside her.Still pretending that she was sound asleep, restlessly, she moved closer to him, snuggling into his back and throwing an arm over his body. Eddie turned away, gently removing her arm, and moved away to his side of the king-sized bed.Feeling like she had been punched in the stomach by his unconscious rejection of her, Alyce smothered her face in the pillow and tried to keep from screaming out her sorrow.The next day there was to be.